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Lord Roose Bolton charges Steelshanks with escorting Jaime Lannister safely back to King's Landing. When Jaime decides to return to Harrenhal to save Brienne from Locke, he forces Steelshanks to accompany him by threatening to dishonestly tell his father Tywin Lannister that Steelshanks is responsible for Jaime's missing hand, but also offers to lie and say he was the one who saved him.

As Jaime attempts to rescue Brienne from the bear in the pit, Steelshanks is angrily questioned by Locke as to why he is attacking his bear, and Steelshanks explains that Roose Bolton charged him with bringing Jaime back to King's Landing alive.[1]

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, "Steelshanks" Walton is a man-at-arms sworn to House Bolton. He serves Roose Bolton as his captain. He got his nickname from the steel greaves he wears over his long legs. According to Jaime, Walton is blunt, brusque, brutal, at heart a simple soldier.